Soyuz 26

 1977-113A

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Yuriy Romanenko and Georgiy Grechko stepped in to replace the Soyuz-25 crew as Salyut-6's first residents. Their spacecraft, 7K-T No. 43 (11F615A8 No. 43) was launched on 1977 Dec 10 and became Soyuz-26. It docked with the rear port of DOS 5 on 1977 Dec 11.

On 1978 Jan 16, the EP-1 crew launched on Soyuz-27, Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Oleg Makarov, entered the spacecraft. They undocked later that day and landed in Kazakhstan.

Soyuz-26
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1977 Dec 10	0118:40	Launch by Soyuz-U	KB
	0120	Blok BVGD sep
	0123	Blok A sep
	0127	Blok I MECO
	0127	Blok I sep
			88.7 195 x 235 x 51.6
			205 x 245 x 51.6
			90.2 251 x 321 x 51.6
	0900	262 x 337 x 51.6
1977 Dec 11	0302	Docked with Salyut-6
		EO crew to Salyut-6
1978 Jan 15		Test burn
1978 Jan 16		EP crew from Salyut-6
	0805?	Undocked
	1039?	Retrofire
	1042?	DO CO
	1055?	Modules sep
	1100?	Entry
	1124:58	Landed

Kosmos 2360

 1998-045A

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Kosmos-2360
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1998 Jul 28	0915:00	Launch by Zenit-2	KB
	0917	T+2:23 St 1 MECO
	0917	T+2:25 Stage 1 sep
	0917	T+2:25 Stage 2 burn
	0917	T+2:40 GO sep
	0921	T+6:42 Stage 2 MECO	150? x 850? x 71.0
		Sep motor cover perigee
	0928?	T+13m? Stage 2 VECO
	0928?	Stage 2 sep motor covers
	0928?	T+13m? Stage 2 sep
1998 Aug 3			101.95 847 x 854 x 71.0

The Cambridge Dictionary of Space Technology

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Rocsat 1

 1999-002A

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The Republic of China (Taiwan) NSPO National Space Program Office contracted TRW to built the ROCSAT (Republic of China Satellite) experimental satellite. Taiwan Aerospace/Taichung and ITRI/Hsinchu, as well as the NSPO/Hsinchu integration facility were involved in building the satellite. Rocsat has a mass of 403 kg and will be launched into a 600 x 600 x 35 orbit. The OCI will determine plankton levels for fisheries management. Size is 1.1 x 1.1 x 2.0 m with two 1.1 x 2.5 m solar arrays. The Rocsat bus will also be used for some EOS missions.

In some contexts ROCSAT is referred to in Chinese by the word whose Wade-Giles transliteration is Chunghua (meaning China). Taiwan at this time used Wade-Giles rather than Pinyin. However more generally the name Formosat-1 (

\uni{ 福爾摩沙衛星一號}{ }

Fuermosha weixing yi hao) is used.

The Athena has a Castor 120 stage 1 and an Orbus 21D ESBM (Equipment Section Boost Motor).

On 2004 Jun 16 the satellite lost Sun sensor capabilities and the spacecraft was unable to keep its solar panels oriented, losing power.

ESBM was 10810 kg full 1030 em, thrust 189.2 kN, 296s Isp. 2903 m/s. mdot 65.2 kg/s.

m1/m2 = 11213 / 1433 so dV = 5972 m/s

ROCSAT 1
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1999 Jan 27	0034	Launch by Athena-1	SPFL SLC46
		T+1:34 St 1 burnout
		T+3:09 Model 92 Fairing sep
		T+3:14 St 1 sep
	0037	T+3:16 ESBM burn 149s	-6194? x 222 x 35.0
		T+5:45 ESBM burnout
	0039	T+5:45 ESBM sep	89.25 208 x 265 x 35.0 (ILAM)
		T+5:50 OAM burn 121s
	0041	T+7:51 OAM MECO	92.79 209 x 612 x 35.0 (ILAM)
	0125	T+51:55 OAM burn 2 164s
	0128	T+54:39 OAM MECO-2
	0139	T+1:05:08 OAM sep	96.74 596 x 608 x 35.0 (ILAM)
	0144	T+1:10:08 OAM CCAM burn
	0146	T+1:12:24 OAM CCAM cutoff	91.99 146 x 597 x 34.7 (ILAM)